Hampstead Hospital

About Hampstead Hospital

Hampstead Hospital and Residential Treatment Facility, a member of Dartmouth Health, is an accredited specialty hospital in Hampstead, New Hampshire, that treats children, adolescents, and young adults facing acute psychiatric and substance use-related disorders. They focus on intensive care for young people with severe or complex mental health needs, and their approach is trauma-informed and centered on both the patient and the family. Care is offered through inpatient hospitalization, partial hospitalization as a step-down after an inpatient stay, and a psychiatric residential treatment facility. Young adults can receive inpatient services for both psychiatric and substance-related conditions.

Their residential program, East Acres at Hampstead, has more than 40 beds for children roughly ages 5 to 15 and pairs 24-hour nursing with a full psychiatric evaluation, daily medication management, and a structured, predictable routine. Treatment combines small, individualized groups with expressive and supportive therapies, academic programming, and active family participation, while crisis and safety planning and aftercare referrals help prepare each young person for discharge. The care team includes board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, master’s-level social workers, and board-certified behavior analysts. Admissions are often coordinated with New Hampshire’s Rapid Response Access Point, local emergency rooms, and community mental health centers to decide whether hospitalization is the right fit.